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April 29, 2016
Recruitment process for UPC judges imminent; Code of Conduct for UPC representatives reviewed; PMAC arbitration rules agreed; EPO Select Committee discuss remaining aspects of the Unitary Patent system; our latest UPC scenario on challenging a non-opted out European patent relating to a pharmaceutical product during the transitional period; and informative webinar on Unitary Patent and UPC
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April 29, 2016
Lex Machina’s Hatch-Waxman/ANDA Report reveals a spike in case filing, as well as the biggest participants and law firms in ANDA patent litigation
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April 27, 2016
The Defend Trade Secrets Act, which will create a federal civil remedy for stealing trade secrets, will now go to President Obama for signing into law after being passed in the House of Representatives 410-2
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April 27, 2016
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April 27, 2016
How might a clearing-the-way case proceed once the UPC is in force? In the latest article in our series, David Rose, Nina O’Sullivan and Axel Walz consider the options for a patent challenger who wishes to launch a competing product
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April 26, 2016
The Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in Cuozzo Speed Technologies v Lee, the first Supreme Court case to consider an appeal of a PTAB decision
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April 25, 2016
Outstanding work in IP was celebrated at our Global Awards Dinner in London in March, attended by nearly 300 IP practitioners
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April 25, 2016
The AIPPI returns to Italy this year, for the first time since 1969. Once again, Managing IP will be providing coverage in the AIPPI Daily Report and here we provide a preview of what to expect
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April 20, 2016
Marathon subsidiary Dynamic Advances will dismiss patent litigation with Apple related to the Siri personal assistant. Marathon may have to enter arbitration with co-plaintiff Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, however, which it believes “unreasonably withheld its consent to the reasonable royalty rate”
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April 20, 2016
In a busy few days for trade secrets news, the House Judiciary Committee has approved a Senate-passed trade secrets bills with no changes and Indian company Tata has been hit with a $940m damages verdict in Wisconsin
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April 20, 2016
In our regular round-up, we summarise recently-announced partner moves in the Americas, including hires by Norton Rose Fulbright, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Mayer Brown, Reed Smith and Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn
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April 19, 2016
The California-based counsel shares her views on the state of the IP environment in the US and how professionals can contribute to improvements, particularly in the patent field
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April 19, 2016
Managing IP crunches the data to reveal the busiest petitioners, patent owners, law firms, and attorneys at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in the first three months of 2016. The quarter included some interesting petitions such as the first IPR challenging an Apple patent
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April 19, 2016
The number of petitions filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in March was down on the previous month. So far this USPTO fiscal year, the percentage of challenges to mechanical/business method and bio/pharma patents has increased
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April 18, 2016
Our regular roundup includes news from the EPO, RCF, KWM, Boult Wade Tennant, Finnegan, Gill Jennings & Every, Ashfords, Haseltine Lake and ITMA
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April 13, 2016
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April 08, 2016
US patent case filing in district courts dropped in the first quarter, down 39% on the fourth quarter and 34% on the first quarter last year, according to Unified Patents. An analysis of Eastern District of Texas filing reveals a disproportionately large drop in the district
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April 06, 2016
The Defend Trade Secrets Act has been passed 87-0 in the US Senate. It would allow federal actions in response to the misappropriation of trade secrets, but it is not clear how big an impact it would have after some of the more controversial provisions were scaled back by a Senate committee and with the House of Representatives yet to vote on the bill
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April 06, 2016
Real-time reports from our first Africa Roadshow, held in New York City on April 6 (all times EST)
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April 05, 2016
The final rule changes to Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings will likely help to reduce the rate of institution of trials, especially allowing patent owners to include relevant testimonial evidence in preliminary responses. There was one surprise, however, with the USPTO dropping a proposed pilot programme
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April 05, 2016
After attending the recent INTA/AIPPI conference on “Designs: Into the Future”, James Nurton summarises what there is to love about designs – and also a few reasons not to love them. We also look in depth at the recent Trunki decision in the UK and the pending Apple v Samsung case in the United States
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April 05, 2016
China’s latest Judicial Interpretation brings a raft of changes to patent trials, as Stephy Tang explains
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April 04, 2016
A bill targeting patent trolls at the ITC has been introduced in Congress against a backdrop of fewer investigations in the past four years. But speakers at a recent Managing IP forum said ITC filing could pick up again
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April 01, 2016
Reports from the second and final day of this year's Fordham IP Conference. Refresh for latest updates